Sierra Club's Amended Complaint Fights Coal Plants

Law360, New York (September 9, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT) -- By adding a power supplier company as a defendant, the Sierra Club has slightly revised its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for illegally approving a coal-fired plant in western Kansas.

In its first amended complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Sierra Club named Sunflower Electric Corp. as a defendant in the lawsuit, which alleges that Rural Utilities Services, a division of the USDA, violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it approved an expansion project at...